Ribadu is an hypocrite- Presidency

The Presidency on Monday described the comment credited to former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu that Nigeria is ‘sinking ship’ as false, hypocritical and self-serving claim.

Ribadu, at a lecture in Kaduna on Saturday, was said to have declared that Nigeria is a “sinking ship” under President Goodluck Jonathan with the yearnings of the masses being neglected by a tyrannical leadership.

A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati noted that there is no tyranny greater than the tenure of Ribadu at EFCC when governors were removed via undemocratic means and illegally barring some persons from contesting elections.

Ribadu, the statement said, ought to be grateful to the President for saving him from self-imposed exile, restoring his rank in the Nigeria Police and converted his dismissal from service to retirement.

The statement reads: “The Presidency totally rejects the false, hypocritical and self-serving claim by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu at a lecture in Kaduna on Saturday that Nigeria under President Goodluck Jonathan is a “sinking ship” in which the yearnings of the masses are being neglected by a tyrannical leadership.”

“We find it very sad and utterly deplorable that Nuhu Ribadu has resorted to shameless wolf-crying, the peddling of arrant falsehood and the denigration of the elected government of his fatherland in furtherance of his selfish quest for continued national political relevance after his wholesale rejection by Nigerian voters in 2011.

“It is very unfortunate indeed that the once highly respected former EFCC Chairman has now taken to political prostitution and developed a penchant for irresponsible and reckless utterances aimed at improving the electoral fortunes of his new friends and “leader”, who he once famously denounced as a crook who is “not fit to hold public office.

“There can be no doubt that nothing else but blind ambition for an office for which he is clearly unfit is driving Ribadu to infer that an Administration led by a President who welcomed him back to the country after his self-imposed exile, restored his rank in the Nigeria Police to save him from the shame of demotion and converted his dismissal from service to retirement has now become tyrannical and anti-people. We take special note of his ingratitude.

“If Nuhu Ribadu wants to talk of tyranny then he should talk of the days when he orchestrated the impeachment of governors with an illegitimate quorum of legislators who had been threatened by the EFCC under his watch. It beats the imagination that Nuhu Ribadu, a man who once presided over an EFCC which in 2007 compiled a list of disqualified politicians aspiring for office without a court order or legal backing now has the guts to accuse the man under whom Nigeria has had the most credible elections in this Fourth Republic of being the leader of a “sinking ship.

“Can there be a greater tyranny than the tyranny of removing governors via undemocratic means and barring legally entitled persons from contesting elections?” The Presidency queried

“Nothing else but misguided ambition could have driven Ribadu to urge Nigerian youth to rise up and save the country from an Administration which he willingly served recently, but which he now duplicitously and insincerely claims is “imposing private interests on the majority”.

“It is certainly the height of hypocrisy for Ribadu who built his entire reputation as an anti-corruption crusader by completely disregarding the rule of law and recklessly trampling on the rights of perceived enemies of the government of the day, to now accuse an administration that has consistently upheld the rule of law and respect for fundamental human rights of being tyrannical.

“It is only a shameless man that will turn around and accept to be the political lackey of a man he once openly accused of corruption at various times between 2004 and 2007. Now that he has been used and abused by the undemocratic overlords that reign over the ACN and fearing that he may soon be dumped now that that vehicle is about to be subsumed into the so called All Progressives Congress, Ribadu is desperately seeking fresh relevance.

“Ribadu’s descent into a moral abyss since leaving the exalted office of EFCC Chairman, his equally ethically-challenged new friends and his willingness to vituperate against any person or institution he perceives as a challenge to the fulfillment of his unattainable ambitions, have clearly exposed him for what he truly is – a thoroughly unprincipled attention-seeker whose entire career in the public service was built on bootlicking and doing the bidding of the powers of the day without a care for legality which should have been his primary concern as an officer of the law.

“President Jonathan and his Administration will not be distracted from the diligent implementation of the agenda for national transformation by the falsehoods and vituperations of Ribadu and his new friends.

“Far from being tyrannical as Ribadu falsely alleged in Kaduna, President Jonathan will, as he has consistently done since assuming office, continue to strengthen institutions of democratic governance in Nigeria, uphold the fundamental human rights of all Nigerians including the youth, and protect their right to elect leaders in free, fair and credible elections.” Abati stated

We all know Ribadu, one of the yesterday men who feel the pain of being outside govt. These yesterday men will cry their eyes out.

Kamsy

Dr Reuben Abati, I don’t know whether you are a Christian or a pegan but which ever religion you belong to, truth is like a shinning light, that Darkness like your color can not with stand. If you like use the worst gutter language you can remember, the truth will always prevail over false hold. Don’t worry one day the chicken must come back to roost

Of all human frailties, ingratitude i hate….Ribadu is a confirmed hypocrite as described above.

Ben

The case of a kettle calling the pot black. Mr. Rueben Abati (Alapa) did you not before describe the PDP as the most corrupt party in the country while you were at Guardian newspapers? Is that PDP not today your best political party in the country, nay, in the world? You are a more shameless and unprincipled person than Ribadu that you are now castigating. Modestly, Ribadu might have behaved in a way or two that people don’t like when he was at EFCC, but he did substantially a good job that many Nigerians appreciated, unlike you, serving what many Nigerians hate as a political party. You are a complete disgrace to the journalism profession, and would carry the mark of Judas that you are with you, for a very long time when your employers would have been kicked out of power by Nigerians come 2015, which they can’t just wait.

CSO

Jonathan will pay a heavy political price for letting off crooks, who should be in jail. Not only Ribadu, but also many politicians and others in the stinking civil society who have enjoyed Jonathan’s civilised conducts to get off many indictments, but now turning against him. Ribadu no doubt is a smart alec, but Tinubu has rubbished his smartness. He never denied the Mansion in Dubai, he also did not denying the official mansion of Police DIG in Abuja, but that OBJ offered him and his in-law pay for it. That’s the man teaching us the evils of corruption. He’s no longer credible, but will continue to fight for relevance and I am sure there will be fools who will clap for him.

This na real uppercut for Ribadu ooo…….shai. Ruben has gotten a good tutorials from doyin Okupe and even doing the attack dog work more than doyin himself. Ribabu no go fit sleep if him read this IED as detonated by Ruben. I think Boko haram should come and learn how to detonate bomb from this bros.